Dr. Steven Gundry ON: Healthy Foods You Shouldnt Be Eating & the Warning Signs of a Leaky Gut

About 70% of the food we eat is processed or ultra-processed ... My advice is, look, if you're reading a label, put it down. There's no label on a head of lettuce.

For the last 21 years now, from January through June, I don't eat breakfast, I don't eat lunch during the week, and I eat all my calories in a 2-hour window from 5:00 to 7:00 at night. So, 22 out of 24 hours I'm fasting.

It's interesting—women, in general, have a much better 'gut feeling' than men. And, interestingly enough, women, by far, have far more autoimmune diseases than men ... Women actually develop far more Alzheimer's disease than men—even though they're clearly the stronger sex. So women, actually, are really in tune with their gut, far more than men.

These foods are designed to be addictive ... Any white substance is addictive—white flour is addictive, white sugar is addictive, cocaine is addictive, heroin is addictive. You choose the white, it's addictive.

You are what you eat, but you are what the thing you're eating ate.

Most people, I think, still are unaware that glyphosate (Roundup) is one of the best ways to destroy your gut that anyone has ever developed.

Almost all diseases, whether it's heart disease, whether it's cancer, whether it's dementia, whether it's arthritis, certainly whether it's autoimmune diseases, begin in a leaky gut.

The problem with intermittent fasting: 80% of Americans, westerners, are pre-diabetic insulin resistant, whether they know it or not, and their doctors don't know how to diagnose it, quite frankly. And when people embark on trying to extend the period of time where they're not eating, they literally fall flat on their face.

If you want to live a long time, if you want to have a brain that works late into life, you have to have metabolic flexibility.